Writer's group party. Winter Solstice, Christmas and Hanukkah all celebrated together. Great food and company!
Yesterday we had our writer’s group Winter Solstice Party – the longest night of the year, one night early. I brought one bowl of grated potatoes with onions and another of grated yam latkes mix. I made the latkes in Nicole’s kitchen. Both plain classic potato and yam latkes. I didn’t have to squeeze out the yams but I did the potatoes. She didn’t mind the mess or the smell. Adele brought her cauliflower salad. Gillean brought quiche made with soya milk instead of real milk because some of us are lacto intolerant. It tasted like the real thing you would never guess she didn’t use milk! (I’m going to try to get the recipe) Our hostess provided us with cinnamon cider, polenta (corn meal mixed with water, salt and grated cheese and yes, I’m going to get that recipe) with tomato sauce. We sat down to a feast.
After we lit candles. Adele and I lit the Hanukkah menorah while Nicole and Gillean lit their festive Christmas candles. We had 21 candles in all. Twenty one a magical number of 7 X 3 and the night of the Solstice. We opened our Secret Santa presents. We had a limit of $10 each and yet we all managed to buy wonderful gifts. I got a dip chiller with two-dip mixes roasted pepper and mango curry. Yum!
We read our poems and stories about new beginnings. Some were memoirs others short stories. All were deeply personal. Then we Stephen gave us two words from which we had to write a paragraph. His two words “Artistic Excitement”. All four of us managed to write a story, or a memoir in just one paragraph. It was fun.
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